How I Met Mark Zuckerberg in Silicon Valley

The odd question about Facebook that's very hard to get a handle on is why nobody in Boston invested between February of 04 and August 04 when I met them in Silicon Valley. There were these venture capitalists in Boston that were personally annoyed at how well Zuckerberg was going to do and it sort of stopped them in a way from making the investment. What I told Zuckerberg when I when I made the investment was that I sincerely hoped that he would be far wealthier and far more successful than I had ever been and I'm very glad that happenedI think one one version of it is that older people often don't want younger people to do better than themselves.

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